Solarbabies
“From a distant star a powerful and mystical force comes to Earth. And for those brave enough to follow, it will change their lives forever.”
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The water apocalypse has arrived, and the teenagers have brought roller skates. An orphanage hockey team and a mysterious glowing orb take on the desert regime in a film that keeps finding new genres to join. Pack enthusiasm and suspend every objection about skating on sand.
Nominated by @flabbergasted_jones
The club’s verdict
- Acting
- 6/10
- Plot
- 8.5/10
- Effects
- 5.5/10
- Dialogue
- 6.5/10
- Rewatchability
- 7.5/10
“Dystopia forgot to ban roller hockey.”
@flabbergasted_jones, scored it 68
Synopsis and movie facts
In a future in which most water has disappeared from the Earth, we find a group of children, mostly teenagers, who are living at an orphanage, run by the despotic rulers of the new Earth. The group in question plays a hockey based game on roller skates and is quite good. It has given them a unity that transcends the attempts to bring them to heel by the government. Finding an orb of special power, they find it has unusual effects on them. They escape from the orphanage (on skates) and try to cross the wasteland looking for a place they can live free as the storm-troopers search for them and the orb.
- Released
- 1986
- Directed by
- Alan Johnson
- Running time
- 94 min
Starring
- Richard Jordan as Grock
- Jami Gertz as Terra
- Jason Patric as Jason
- Lukas Haas as Daniel
- James Le Gros as Metron
- Claude Brooks as Rabbit
- Peter DeLuise as Tug
- Peter Kowanko as Gavial
Research behind this pick
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- Film reference · themoviedb.org
TMDB identity and credits retrieved on 2026-11-10: Solarbabies (1986), directed by Alan Johnson. The importer rechecks identity, poster, synopsis, release date, runtime, genres and cast against live metadata.
- Review · millionmonkeytheater.com
The review describes the skating fugitives, supernatural orb and authoritarian water regime, and notes the sense of competing screenplay ideas. Full review text consulted on 2026-11-10.
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